The number twenty-four is twenty-four hours in a twenty-four-hour day, twenty-four musical tonalities, conveying the fullness of the world of sounds.  The twenty-four "Elders" are also an image of the fullness of the Wisdom of the Divine Will expressed by all the Prophets and Righteous in the Scriptures.

The number twenty-four is also a symbol of the fullness of the number of all the Patriarchs, Prophets, Righteous Men, through whom God originally proclaimed His Commandments to the nations and so purified their consciousness and sanctified their moral and spiritual life